Vpliv šibkega magnetnega polja na korozijo aluminijeve embalažne folije

Abstract

Aluminum can be absorbed through the digestive system from water and drinks and the food that contains natural traces and processed food or the food cooked in aluminum cookware. Some studies show that the people exposed to high levels of aluminum may develop kidney, bone and brain diseases. Aluminum foil (AlFeSi) is daily used as packaging for food and drugs stored in the refrigerator where an electric motor induces a magnetic field of a few microteslas. The purpose of this work is to study the corrosion behavior of various aluminum packaging foils and the effect of a weak magnetic field on the morphology and the corrosion kinetics in the 0.3 % and 3 % of mass fractions of NaCl solutions. The mean results for various aluminum packaging foils show that localized corrosion is controlled by the electrochemical potentials of different phases constituting the aluminum foil and the concentration of the precipitates from the other phases. The morphology and the corrosion kinetics of aluminum packaging foil in the 0.3 % and 3 % of mass fractions of NaCl solutions are different with and without an application of a weak magnetic field. Electrochemical tests applied to cheese packaging paper show that the introduction of a magnetic field decreases the polarization resistance, the potential of passivation and the value of the open-circuit potential at the beginning of the corrosion; however, its passivation-current density increases at the beginning of the corrosion. The values of the open-circuit potential with and without a weak magnetic field are the same after thirty days of corrosion.